Articles by Angela Morrison
Lizzo Is 'Special,' Though the Music Isn't Always
PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022
The music video for "About Damn Time," the infectious and glimmering lead single from Lizzo's fourth studio album, Special, opens on a grou...
MONOWHALES Don't Waste a Single Moment on 'Daytona Bleach'
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2021
Toronto-based indie rockers MONOWHALES have returned with their long-anticipated follow-up to 2017's Control Freak EP. Daytona Bleach is a...
Taylor Swift Finds the Sunshine on 'evermore'
PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2020
Just five months after Taylor Swift surprised the world with the sudden release of her eighth studio album, folklore, she decided to celebr...
David Byrne Starts Making Sense in 'American Utopia'
Directed by Spike Lee
PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2020
American Utopia has all the qualities of a great concert film: an accomplished director (Spike Lee), a fascinating performer with a rich mu...
Bahamas' 'Sad Hunk' Lives Up to Its Name
PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2020
"Is there some trick to being happy?" asks Bahamas (a.k.a. Afie Jurvanen) on "Trick to Happy," the opening track on Sad Hunk, his fifth ful...
Turning Jewels into Water Decentre Shallow Understandings of "World" Music with 'Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars'
PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2020
Turning Jewels into Water, the collaborative project between electronic musicians Val Jeanty and Ravish Momin, are a brilliant demonstratio...
VQFF Review: 'Cicada' Bravely Explores the Messy, Nonlinear Process of Healing and Romance
Directed by Matthew Fifer and Kieran Mulcare
PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2020
Matthew Fifer and Kieran Mulcare's Cicada is a delicate exploration of the interconnectedness of trauma, sexuality and race, and the diffic...
VQFF Review: 'Lingua Franca' Captures the Understated Nuance of Real Life
PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2020
Lingua Franca, the Centerpiece Gala film at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, is beautifully understated, technically accomplished and sen...
